Why enlightenment?

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:23:46 +0200 Andreas Fischer <cyberfrag at gmx.net> said:

> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> 
> > http://www.rasterman.com/files/wp2.avi
> > 
> > (i'm not done with it yet).
> 
> This is 100% astonishing and sexy - I want that on my desktop :P
> Congrats for the good work.

it's in e17 in svn :)

> > evas also has a OpenGL engine
> 
> Sorry for being off-topic, but I've wondered about this for a while...
> does this mean that e17 will have its own compositing engine? Will it
> use hardware-accelerated graphics if available? Will that enable other
> developers to write plugins much like the ones seen in compiz or kwin?

no. no compositing engine built-in. there is an extra module (bling) that
composits - using xrender. its nothing more than xcompmgr as a module for e.

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